PayPal

This tutorial assumes the designer has a basic knowledge of Editing HTML files after Publishing from iWeb.

To get Paypal to work in iWeb you first need to create a Paypal account. Go to http://Paypal.com and take the necessary steps to create and validate your account.

Once you've created an account you can log-in and go to the "Merchant Services" tab at the top of your account home page.

The First section titled "PayPal Website Payments Standard" click on the "Buy Now Buttons" link to get started creating a Buy Now Button.  Fill out the information for the item you are selling in the form that appears then click "Create Button Now" to get the HTML code for the button. You can add additional options to your Button if you wish.

To create an "Add To Cart" button repeat the same process from the "PayPal Website Payments Standard" section by clicking on the "PayPal Shopping Cart" button.

You will get a code that looks like this:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="YourEmail@YourSite.com">
<input type="hidden" name="undefined_quantity" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="YourItemName">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="00001">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="100.00">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://iWebFAQ.com">
<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="http://iWebFAQ.com">
<input type="hidden" name="cn" value="Comments">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-BuyNowBF">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

If you copy the orange text and open it in a new browser window you will see the Paypal Button image. You can see the dimentions of the image in the title of the page. The image in this code is 61x31 pixels. That's how big the text box with "PAYPALBUTTON1" will be in iWeb when we Publish.

After you've recieved the html code for a Paypal purchase button you can copy the code into the Text Box "PAYPALCODEHERE" text you inserted the size of the button in iWeb v.1.  Do this by Editing the HTML file. Repeat the process if necessary. If you have different sized Paypal Buttons you may have to keep that in mind when laying out your site in iWeb and creating your Text Boxes the size of the PayPal Buttons.